Lana Del Rey and journalist trade accusations

Lana Del Rey is defending herself after being accused of glamorizing rock stars who die young.

Earlier this week, Del Rey talked about her attraction to Kurt Cobain and the so-called "27 Club" to a Guardian interviewer, and was quoted saying, "I wish I was dead already."

Kurt Cobain killed himself in April 1994 at the age of 27. Other members of the so-called "27 Club" who died young include Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Amy Winehouse.

Cobain's daughter Francis Bean Cobain responded to Del Rey's comments on Twitter, writing "the death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize. I'll never know my father because he died young & it becomes a desirable feat because ppl like u think it's 'cool.' Embrace life, because u only get one life. The ppl u mentioned wasted that life. Don't be 1 of those ppl. ur too talented to waste it away."

Del Ray responded on Twitter, writing, "(The interviewer) was asking me a lot about your dad. I said I liked him because he was talented not because he died young."

And Cobain followed up on Twitter by writing, "I'm not attacking anyone. I have no animosity toward Lana. I was just trying to put things in perspective from personal experience."

Ray also tweeted that she was asked leading questions, "I regret trusting the guardian -- i didn't want to do an interview but the journalist was persistent. Alexis (Petridis, the newspaper's music critic) was masked as a fan but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about.

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"His leading questions about death and persona were calculated."

I hate sinister music critics.

Guardian journalist Tim Jonze, who actually conducted the interview, was quick to fire back. "Besides the fact Lana doesn't remember who actually interviewed her, there are a number of things about her statement that sound a bit iffy to me," he wrote. "She can hardly complain about the subject matter: She'd been talking about her icons all dying young; she named her debut album 'Born to Die' and had spent much of the 50 minutes previous to this point telling me how miserable she was."

Rest assured that if Del Rey responds and Cobain responds to the response, followed by more sinister music critics responding, we'll respond by reporting on all that responding.

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